Download NOAA's Local Climatological Data through an API

Question

I want to download data from the Local Climatological Database using an API, ideally through R so I can select data from many stations. However, figuring out how to format the request would work as well. NOAA seems to have a lot of different APIs (for reference), and I'm not sure if this can be downloaded from one of them.

To trial, I edited an example I found on another API page (reference). My trial used some of the following parameters/choices:

• It's using the v1 API (not sure if this is an API I can use for this);
• The dataset is the Local Climatological Data;
• The variable I used was Daily Average Dew Point Temperature (I've seen short and long names for this); and
• I am looking at a station in Atlanta that I know has these data.

Here is the code I used for this one trial:

GET("https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=local-climatological-data&dataTypes=DailyAverageDewPointTemperature&stations=USW0013874&startDate=2025-01-01&endDate=2025-01-31&boundingBox=90,-180,-90,180")

When I did so, this was the output I received.

Response [https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=local-climatological-data&dataTypes=DailyAverageDewPointTemperature&stations=USW0013874&startDate=2025-01-01&endDate=2025-01-31&boundingBox=90,-180,-90,180]
  Date: 2025-02-11 21:16
  Status: 200
  Content-Type: text/csv;charset=utf-8
  Size: 74 B
"STATION","DATE","REPORT_TYPE","SOURCE","DailyAverageDewPointTemperature"

How do I correctly format this request (if it is possible)?

Thanks so much!